On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:36:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:01:42 -0400, John Eells wrote: >> >>... >> >>The 7-character length restriction comes from the same source. Users in >>UADS have one or more members in that data set, depending on its block >>size and the number of attributes in their user entries. The last >>character is numeric, so someone with a lot of attributes might have >>UADS members USERID0-USERID9. This causes the last character to be >>"reserved," and as PDS members may have 1-8 character names, TSO/E user >>IDs can be 1-7 characters in length. >> >So why not relax the 7 character restriction for customers who are >willing to commit to relying on RACF and forgoing UADS? Because the 7-character length of TSO user IDs is entrenched in a lot of TSO-related code and control blocks. Changing it would be a major undertaking for IBM, both for coding and testing, and would involve compatibility issues that could also affect a lot of vendor and customer code. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
